Family Clusiidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Works Cited

Yellow fly with dark lengthwise marks on thorax - Sobarocephala setipes

Sobarocephala Fly ? - Sobarocephala lachnosternum - female

yellow fly on scat - Sobarocephala setipes

Acalyptratae, swept from low lying vegetation in a cottonwood-red cedar forest.

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Opomyzoidea

Family Clusiidae

Explanation of Names

Clusiidae Handlirsch 1884

Numbers

43 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1), >360 spp. in 17 genera total(2)

Size

usually 2.5-6.0 mm(1)

Identification

most readily identified by an angulate extension on the outer margin of the pedicel, a dorsoapical arista (dorsobasal in other similar families) on an orbicuar first flagllomere, a complete subcosta, one subcostal break (indistinct in most Clusiodinae), one pair of vibrissae, and five or fewer fronto-orbital bristles(1)

Works Cited

1.	Key to the World genera and North American species of Clusiidae (Diptera: Schizophora) Lonsdale O., Cheung D.K.B., Marshall S.A. 2011. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 14.

2.	Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.

Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 6:34pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 8:33pm

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